Sr Software Engineer

Role & responsibilities

In this role, you will:
• Be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Provide technical leadership to an agile team of 5-7
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
• Translate requirements / vision into prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards
• Work with product line leaders and architects to develop multi generation software technology plans
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
• Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
• Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results
• Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
• Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
• Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using technology chosen
• Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with 5+ Years of experience.

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise:

• Experience in Java for developing robust and scalable applications.
• Experience with Spring Boot framework components for efficient application development.
• Experience in microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc. comfortable in building microservices with distributed systems.
• Experience with performance optimizations, secure coding, multi-threading, caching, message queues, authn/authz techniques.
• Proficient in JUnit framework for unit testing.
• Proficient in design principles, design patterns, and debugging techniques.
• Proficient in Message Queueing and Event Streaming platforms like Kafka, Rabbit MQ
• Proficient in databases(RDBMS/NOSQL)
• Desirable to have experience in integration framework like Apache Camel etc.
• Desirable to have experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Familiarity with cluster deployments, load-balancing, HA, redundancy
• Familiarity with the CI/CD tools
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
  • Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
  • Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends
  • Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices